India
Defense minister quits over bribery scandal
India's defense minister resigned Thursday as a corruption scandal involving a fake arms deal secretly filmed by journalists shook the government. George Fernandes, one of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's closest allies, said the allegations against him were "completely false," and suggested they were meant to undermine national security and morale.
The scandal erupted on Tuesday when the Tehelka.com Internet media company publicized hidden camera videos of party, military and defense ministry officials accepting money and discussing kickbacks in a sting operation.
Yemen
More suspects located in USS Cole bombing
American and Yemeni investigators have located the hiding places of two more suspects in the bombing of a U.S. warship and are trying to catch them, Yemen's interior minister said in comments published Thursday.
Hussein Mohammad Arab said the two were being sought outside Yemen, but did not say where. Arab, whose comments were published in 26 September, the official ministry newspaper, also said that the two countries have agreed that the trial of eight other suspects imprisoned in Yemen would begin at the end of this month. He did not give an exact date.
The Oct. 12 attack on the Cole in Yemen's southern Aden harbor killed 17 U.S. sailors and wounded 39.
Brazil
Disaster in offshore rig shakes economy
Explosions and fire ravaged Brazil's largest offshore oil rig Thursday, killing at least one worker, weakening the nation's currency and shaking its biggest company.
Three explosions shortly after midnight rocked the rig, which weighs 31.4 tons and is as tall as a 40-story building. It is tilting. The rig, 75 miles off Brazil's southeastern Atlantic coast, accounts for more than three-fourths of the 1.3 million barrels Brazil produces daily.
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